Word: vietnames
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started doing jumping jacks. My nurse took blood from my car and dropped it into copper sulfate to see whether I was anemic. Then she asked me 30 questions, including "Have you been exposed to malaria?" When I said I was unsure she told me people who go to Vietnam must flirt with this danger. I said I might know more about that in two years because my number...
...employed 14,000,000 pounds of tear gas in Vietnam. he said, and has defoliated an area the size of Massachusetts with anti-plant chemicals used in "environmental warfare...
...summer night. It is the speech about having been to the top of the mountain, and hearing that tremulous sermon again reminds me that history is a process of forgetting. The dim past surges up before us, events which had an aura that defined them are obscured. Even Vietnam is an experience, like a dream, because it exists in a moment charged with the intentions of our lives...
Weathermen leaders claimed that the Panthers and the North Vietnamese government are attempting to arrange the release of jailed Panthers in exchange for American airmen held in North Vietnam...
There is an irony- intentional or not- to these priorities. Both major parties now agree that the problems of the cities have enormous price tags and must await the end of the Vietnam war. The peace dividend, however small, must be forthcoming before the nation commits itself to more expensive programs. Urban problems are believed expensive because Americans visualize them as deficiencies in physical capital-buildings that must be turndown, highways that must be built. Yet the problems that Moynihan finds most critical cost relatively little money. Their real costs are political and social, in amounts neither the Administration...